Now it's time for more slayer! Read and review! Support on P/atreon if you'd like and get some sweet stuff! Slight edit of this chapter there is no update, needed to change the size of the Tyrant to be larger than the Goliath. I seriously never knew the Goliath was 20 stories tall so major oversight on my part. Apologies for no actual update.
"Treat today's trip as if it were an actual mission. Powerful Grimm resides here so exercise caution when retrieving your mission items. Each team must gather one jar of sap per person. You may work with other teams but must meet the mission quota before the bulkhead returns. Dismissed." Goodwitch ordered sternly, making everyone get to work. JNPR and RWBY broke off together heading toward a bundle of trees with Yang and Pyrrha conversing with Jaune as they walked.
"So your semblance is damage absorption conversion huh? Pretty useful, but what happens if you take too much damage?" Yang only shrugged giving him a cocky smirk..
"Never has happened to me before, I'm just too badass!" Yang shrugged giving her bicep a quick flex making Jaune give her a grin back responding with his own massive arm flexing dwarfing the brawlers by comparison. She rolled her eyes cheeks taking on a rosy tint at the display.
"H-hey that's not fair! You're a guy!" Yang tried to counter looking away from him.
"Shouldn't have tried to flex on me then!" He shot back chuckling making Pyrrha's eyes shift over glancing at her partner.
"What about your semblance Jaune? Since you asked for Yang's and mine?" Pyrrha asked making Jaune tap the side of his helmet for a moment.
"Well, my semblance is...different to say the least. It's a powerup type that increases all of my physical abilities and the more Grimm I kill the stronger I become. With every Grimm I end my body surges with energy."
"Wow, I don't think I've ever heard of a semblance like that. Does anyone else in your family have that semblance?" Pyrrha inquired getting a nod from Jaune in return.
"Yep, my father, grandfather, great-grandfather list goes on. My semblance is a hereditary one that is passed on from the previous user to the next becoming more powerful than the last. The weird thing about it is that it can only be passed on to a male successor. My father actually started to train my second oldest sister Saphirre to be his successor but when he tried to give her the semblance it rebounded back into him. He then proceeded to keep having kids until he got a son and that took at least five more children so that's the main reason why I have seven sisters!" Jaune gave out a deep laugh shaking his head at the memory.
"That's extremely interesting. I've heard of hereditary semblances before like the Schnee semblance being glyphs." Pyrrha added making Jaune shrug.
"Yeah but yours is pretty amazing Pyr, I mean polarity? Heck you could beat me by just manipulating my armor and throwing me out of the ring in combat class."
"I could, but that wouldn't be a real win. I'd want to beat you with my own power and skill not a cheap ringout." Pyrrha huffed.
"Hey if that's what you'd want Pyrrha I can take off the armor and we could just do hand to hand. No weapons just our bodies." Jaune challenged making Pyrrha's eyes go wide her mouth opening and closing like a fish before finally saying what she wanted to say.
"S-sure! I'd love that!"
"Hey if you two are gonna be doing hand to hand stuff then you should have me there too. I mean not to brag but I'm like the only person who specializes in hand to hand at Beacon." Yang made her case much to Pyrrha's dismay which went unnoticed by Jaune who nodded in agreement.
"Sure. We can make it a threeway exercise. You two versus me. Maybe on Sunday after we hit the town tomorrow at that club you were talking about?" Yang pumped a fist into the air opening her mouth to say something when the ground shook slightly causing leaves from the trees to float to the ground.
"What the hell?" Jaune muttered looking around trying to get an idea of what mad the noise. His answer was met when a Beringel smashed through a tree roaring in rage slamming it's massive arms into the ground making a small crater where Jaune once stood. Everyone leaped back brandishing their weapons and Jaune held up his hand.
"I thought Berigels were native only to Mistral?!" Weiss yelled out in confusion flourishing Myrentaster forward ready to summon a glyph but was interrupted by Jaune's palm being pushed into her face, literally.
"This won't take long. Let me handle him." Jaune ordered making the heiress squawk walking toward the gorilla-like Grimm curling his hands into fists. He stood a small distance away from it staring directly into the beast's eyes not moving an inch. The Beringel gave out another roar pounding its chest leaping forward with an arm pulled back ready to strike at the Slayer. Jaune dashed forward as well mirroring the Grimms movements throwing his fist forward colliding with the monsters obliterating the limb on impact. The ape stared down at it's now limbless shoulder looking back at Jaune again with even more fury charging the Slayer once more in a feeble attempt. The Arc caught its fist with no issue digging his fingers through the beast's knuckles and flesh as if it were a clump of dirt making it thrash and wail in agony desperately trying to escape. The Slayer was having none of that, bringing his free hand underneath the Beringel's chin and ripping its jaw off then tearing the head from its body scattering gore all over the ground. Its body fell to the ground in a mighty thud with Jaune scoffing at the beasts display.
"That was supposed to be a higher echelon Grimm and it was just straight disappointing. You'd think that something with arms that big could actually throw a good punch eh?" Jaune taunted his now dead adversary and his friends just shook their head getting used to the antics when dealing with Grimm.
"Did you really have to tear it's head off? Couldn't you have just I don't know used your blades?!" Weiss lectured him trying to berate him which only made Jaune stifle a laugh.
"And waste the edge of my blades on a weak Grimm? That's like me using your puny rapier as a toothpick or glorified back scratcher!" Jaune snapped back making Weiss recoil at his insult.
"T-toothpick?! BACKSCRATCHER?! How DARE you insult my elegant weapon!" Weiss seethed shaking with anger.
"RAAAGGGHHH!" A deafening roar pierced the air making everyone stop making the ground shake once more but on a much more violent scale.
"That...doesn't sound good." Yang pointed out the obvious with Jaune nodding in agreement scanning the treeline for where the sound echoed from.
'That sounded an awful lot like a-"
"RAAAGHHHHH!" A massive alpha goliath obliterated the treeline uprooting the earth and crushing whatever was in its. Ruby stared up at the beast in fear her life flashing before her eyes raising her arms in a futile attempt when Jaune pushed her out of the way at the last second before being pulverized into the ground.
"JAUNE!" Pyrrha screamed in horror tears already flowing freely down her cheeks as she let out a battle cry firing multiple rounds from Milo and throwing her spear directly into the Goliaths eye making it wail in anger. Everyone else joined her peppering it with gunfire, dust, and grenades before stopping to reload. The elephant Grimm only bellowed out in rage, the overwhelming amounts of fire doing nothing but piss it off. It scraped the ground readying itself to charge when something startied moving underneath its right foot. It looked down in confusion before being flipped onto it's back by an enraged and very much alive Jaune who only suffered a minor dent in his helmet.
"OK YOU OVERGROWN FUCKING ELEPHANT! IM GONNA RAM THOSE TUSKS OF YOURS SO FAR UP YOUR ASS THEY'LL POP OUT OF YOUR DAMNED MOUTH!" Jaune howled in fury leaping onto the now upright Grimm driving his arm straight through its eye and tearing it out without mercy. He continued his assault ripping a tusk off its face and driving it through it's back before unsheathing a Grimmbladfe and wrenching it into its side cutting down its flank leaving a massive gash behind. The Goliath stumbled panting in pain and rage scraping the ground again in a last-ditch charge thundering forward letting out an echoing cry. Jaune stomped a foot into the ground embedding into the earth and rearing back his fist with a bit of his semblances power lashing out as soon as the monster came close enough ramming straight through its skull with a revolting squelch, with the sheer power of his blow causing wind pressure to go cut through the beast, completely obliterating the Goliath leaving nothing behind except the fleeting remains of gore and blood. Jaune let out an agitated breath standing straight and dusting off one of his shoulders that had a bit of dirt on it.
"JAUNE!" Pyrrha yelled out again this time in relief slamming into his side burying her head into his armored chest. Jaune went wide-eyed staring down at his partner in confusion before wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"Hey hey calm down Pyr. I'm fine. That Grimm couldn't hurt me, but I do think it put a dent in my helmet. Gonna have to buff that out." He rubbed said dent speaking absentmindedly making Pyrrha look up at hin with a bit of anger. She slammed a fist into his unprotected bicep making him wince a little before grabbing the under the chin of his helmet glaring directly into his eyes.
"I thought you died! Jaune, Goliaths crush whatever is in their path! I...I thought I lost you, you idiot!" She let go of his helmet and cried harder into his chest making him rub her back gently, the realization starting to dawn on him.
'Shit...she seriously thought I died saving Ruby. I can't blame her though, any normal Huntsman would've been killed instantly.' He wrapped his other arm around her talking quietly to her.
"Shh...shh it's ok Pyr...I'm sorry I scare you so-" Jaune was interrupted by a yellow gauntleted hand crashing into his visor sending him sailing through a tree and finally into the ground in heap.
"Gah! What the hell Yang?!" Jaune shook his head, more shocked than hurt getting back to his feet. Yang was stomping toward him making Jaune get into a guarded stance but was not expecting Yang to jump up and wrap her arms around his neck burying her face into the crook of his neck.
"You stupid...overconfident...brave...idiot." Yang breathed out not able to hold back the tears.
"Yang?" Jaune whispered out in shock that the usually confident brawler was crying.
"Thank you...thank you so much for saving Ruby...if you didn't...she'd be..." Yang choked at the end. Pyrrha walked slowly up next to him with a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't scare us so badly ever again Jaune. I don't think our hearts could take it." Pyrrha joined Yang in the hugging making Jaune's face go red. He closed his eyes making a silent promise to not make everyone worry. The moment was ruined when professor Goodwitch spoke over their scrolls.
"ALL STUDENTS! RENDEVOUS AT THE BULLHEADS! NOW!" She ordered making RWBY and JNPR freeze in worry sprinting to the landing zone as fast as they could making it to the landing zone only to be met with Professor Goodwitch defending the unconscious and bloodied forms of team CDNL and various other teams.
"Teams RWBY and JNPR! Grab the wounded and retreat to the bullhead! NOW!" She ordered, her bun undone and clothes covered in grime and dirt.
"What's going on professor?! What's attacking?!" Ruby asked only to have her question answered immediately as a massive shadow towered over them, RWBY and NPR struggled to stand straight their eyes going wide with shock and terror as one of the most dangerous Grimm to exist on Remnant. The Grimm Tyrant walked into view pushing a tree over as if it were a toy, it's overly muscled human-like form, double horned skull and massive frame dwarfing the huntsman and huntresses beneath them. It had shards of stone and trees embedded in its chest along with a single eye destroyed by a massive rock. Standing at nearly two hundred and fifty feet tall, the Tyrant was only dwarfed by one other Grimm and that was the legendary titan.
"Students, the Grimm before you is one of unparalleled destruction and terror. I order you as both your teacher and superior to retreat now and leave here in the bullhead. I will stall it for as long as I can. My aura is only at thirty percent, I won't be able to buy much time. Go now!" She ordered willing her semblance over the splintered remains of the trunks of downed trees rocketing them into the Tyrant. The omen of destruction shrugged off the attack, treating it like a swarm of gnats that flew too close. RWBY and NPR grabbed the downed students beelining it to the bulkheads.
"Pyrrha wait!" Ruby called out making the champion stop.
"Ruby this is not the time! We need to move!" Pyrrha uged but Ruby could only cry out instantly in response.
"Where's Jaune?!"
(Play "The only thing they fear, is you" Doom Eternal OST)
Jaune unsheathed both of his blades, drawing out his super shotgun with his right hand and heavy cannon with his left wielding the two guns charging headfirst at the monstrous Grimm unflinching as he fired the two weapons in sync keeping constant fire on the massive brute.
"JAUNE ARC! Follow my orders dammit!" Glynda swore trying to will her semblance around her student but coughed up blood falling to the ground in utter exhaustion. She looked up with blurry eyes, seeing Jaune containing to fire his weapons, unwavering in his assault against the terrifying creature.
'If what Ozpin said about you is true Mr. Arc...you're the only one who can save everyone here...' Glynda thought before going unconscious slumping to the forest floor
The Slayer dove left out fo the way as the massive fist shattered the ground where he once stood turning around and firing a blast from his prized weapon reloading it in an instant and grappling toward the limb with the meathook setting the arm ablaze. The giant groaned at the small fire that set his arm aflame wafting it in the air not realizing that Jaune was dragging his blades up its arm leaving gashes behind him as he sprinted up its limb. The Tyrant lifted its other arm swatting down on where Jaune stood expecting to feel a crunch. The Grimm showed visible confusion leaning in close to where he swatted to see the Slayer holding his hand back from crushing him.
Jaune's face twisted in raw fury letting out a guttural roar pushing the limb off of him and leaping toward its head. He landed hard making the gargantuan Grimm stumble back twisting his blades in and out of its skull without hesitation, unrelenting with his blows slicing into the Tyrants flesh with its blood coating his visor. The tyrant knocked him off its face sending Jaune careening into the ground making a pit where he landed. The Slayer stumbled to his feet twisting his neck feeling his bones crack and blood trickle down his head, the taste of copper present in his mouth as he swallowed the plasma without a second thought.
'It's on now fucker.' He rushed toward the Tyrant feeling his semblance surge within him with twenty percent of its power. The Slayer rocketed into the air towards the Tyrant's right thigh slamming into it as soon as he was within range. The massive Grimm bellowed in pain, falling to a knee clutching its wounded leg, the bone breaking through its skin making a fountain of blood stream from the wound. Jaune stabbed his way up its torso ignoring its cries of pain embedding his blades as deeply as possible with each stab. He finally made it to its skull jumping towards it and sending another twenty percent semblance punch into its jaw. The Tyrant's head flew back, neck-snapping instantly from the force of the blow making the beast start to fall to the earth. Jaune rode atop its head still stabbing, shooting and scorching its skull with his entire arsenal. The ground shuddered beneath the weight of the Tyrant shattering the earth beneath it, Jaune continued to slam his blades and fists into its skull refusing to stop until it was nothing but a headless Grimm. He let a final warcry, plunging his bladed arms into the giant's jaw obliterating its head to nothing but gore.
The slayer fell to his knees with heavy breaths, before looking back up at the sky screaming in triumph.
"YEAGHHH!" Jaune took in another breath getting to his feet jumping off the dissipating corpse walking over to his unconscious teacher. He picked her up gently in a bridal carry making his way to the bullhead. Moments later he finally made it to the clearing, two other students rushing forward with a stretcher resting her down on it as slowly as possible.
"W-wait..." The teacher finally regained consciousness motioning for Jaune to come forward. He knelt next to her staring directly into her gaze.
"Mr. Arc...what you did...was reckless...dangerous...and...saved not only my life...but the lives of everyone else here...thank you...Slayer." She passed out again, the students taking her away. Jaune took off his helmet bringing a hand to his head feeling the stickiness of blood matted in his hair, changing his blonde locks red.
"JAUNE!" He sighed knowing all too well what was about to happen bracing himself for the punch that Yang and Pyrrha were obviously about hit him with. What he was met with was being pulled down between the two women, the duo sandwiching him between their breasts letting out sighs of relief.
"When will you stop doing such reckless things Jaune?" Pyrrha choked out smiling and shaking her head with Yang nodding.
"What she said. Worried the hell out of us you dumbass. You're gonna repay us by giving us dances tomorrow when we go to the club. No ifs and or buts!"
Jaune simply closed his eyes and smiled letting the two women walk him to the bullhead.
'Man I need a nap.'
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